Translation: Popular Science Platform Shut Down After Nationalistic Backlash
A Chinese science media platform has suspended operations after being accused of bias against China. PaperClip (回形针), a Beijing-based platform known for popular science videos, has been caught in a nationalistic uproar in recent...
Read MoreHungarian Protestors Oppose Flagship Belt and Road Project, a Fudan University Satellite Campus
A 10,000 person protest in Budapest may have derailed a landmark Belt and Road Initiative project in the Hungarian capital: a satellite campus of China’s prestigious Fudan University. At Reuters, Anita Komuves covered the...
Read MoreApple Daily to Shut Down Within Days, As HK Civil Society Further Collapses
Last Friday, Hong Kong police arrested five Apple Daily executives on national security charges and froze the company’s bank accounts. On Saturday, a Hong Kong magistrate–the same one who presided over hearings for the 47...
Read MoreTranslation: Gay, Transgender Children Still Being Sent to “Conversion Therapy”
The Chinese Psychiatric Association de-listed homosexuality as a mental disorder in 2001, effectively de-legitimizing “conversion therapy,” but the pseudo-science of “correcting” people’s sexual...
Read MoreCEOs Feel The Pinch As Regulators Come Down On Big Tech
After decades of a nearly laissez-faire approach to tech regulation—stringent censorship measures aside—Chinese authorities have stepped up their scrutiny of the country’s internet giants. Regulators have cast a wide net...
Read MoreCDT Weekly, May 21-June 18
One animal more equal than others; Li Wenliang’s Wailing Wall; June 4 and Hong Kong; sexual assault and power; nationalism and fake news Welcome back to CDT’s usually weekly updates, also available as an email newsletter via...
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Apple Daily’s Headquarters Raided, Executives Arrested, Computers Seized
Apple Daily struck a defiant note after Hong Kong police raided its headquarters, arrested its executives, froze its bank accounts, and seized its journalists’ computers: “[we will] press on till the end to see the arrival of...
Read MoreConcerns Over Taishan Nuclear Plant Highlight Official Secrecy
A radioactive gas leak at a nuclear power plant in southern China has been described by experts as a mundane issue with the cladding on fuel rods in one of the plant’s reactors. The episode has nevertheless highlighted the...
Read MoreChina Plans New Rules to Curtail After-School Tutoring, Target Academic Pressure Amid Scandals
The Chinese government is reportedly set to announce new rules to significantly curtail the operations of after-school tuition centers, in an effort to reduce skyrocketing academic competition and pressure on Chinese students....
Read MoreTranslation: Did COVID Begin in Italy? Debunking Fake News on WeChat
In recent years, WeChat has increasingly been used as a distribution platform for “fake news” on a variety of topics including elections in the U.S. and Australia and COVID-19. On June 6, the WeChat public account @新岭南观察 (New...
Read MoreChina’s Top Officials Clash Over Environment and Economics
China’s economic planners have wrested control over climate policy from bureaucrats in the environmental department, potentially jeopardizing efforts to meet emissions pledges made by Xi Jinping before the United Nation’s...
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China Exports Surveillance Systems for “Smart/Safe Cities”, Imports DNA Equipment Despite Export Controls
China’s tech companies have become major vendors of surveillance technology, and are increasingly exporting their products for the construction of “smart” and “safe” cities around the world. New...
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